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How Tough Is It To Be A Red Bull Junior Driver?

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Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dre sits down with former Red Bull and Lotus Junior driver Callan O'Keefe to talk about some of the hidden difficulties on making it to F1 as a teenager and junior driver. From karting, to the mental health aspects of the role, as well as how ruthless and competitive it can be. Also, is it a Red Bull-specific problem, or a problem with the industry in general?

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0:00.0

I wear a few different hats as a CFO, you know, sometimes it's referred to as chief fixing officer.

0:05.0

Wherever there's a fire in the business, you know, I'm often there first.

0:11.0

Whatever hats CFOs like him run need to wear, Sages, tools and insights can make sure they fit.

0:18.0

Sage, helping business flow.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome back to the WTF1 podcast. I'm your friendly neighboured host, Dre Harrison

0:26.0

and welcome to a very special edition of the WTF1 podcast because we've got some very unique and some very awesome insight

0:34.0

because joining me on the show this time around is former rebel junior former Lotus F1 junior and master of the school of send himself.

0:44.0

His own words, not just mine. It's Kalano Keith. Hello, Kalano, good to see you.

0:49.0

Well, thank you very much for having me on and yeah, thank you for the intro. I'm definitely gonna start putting that on the business cards from now on.

0:55.0

It's a great name. It fits. I feel like you're missing a trick here, Kalano.

0:59.0

Yeah, it's a great name for a for a driving school in the development programs.

1:03.0

Slap it on the business card. It rolls right off the tongue. Roll with it. It's what I say.

1:07.0

Yeah, we want to make sure that obviously our drivers are not only producing race wins, but, um, yeah, keeping stuff interesting and making good content.

1:14.0

Everything's about content nowadays. So, um, of course, a good name and hopefully our drivers are living up to, which thankfully they are for the moment.

1:20.0

Exactly. Every little helps as far as I'm concerned. So yeah, that would be fantastic. Now, we've brought you on for a good reason, Kalano.

1:28.0

And this, this was some interesting comments that was made by one of your peers in the rebel junior program.

1:35.0

And that's, um, then that was Jaime Augustoari, who you may remember for as an F1 name from yesterday listeners.

1:42.0

Um, he, uh, he's moved on from racing for the most part now. He's in, he's into music and whatnot.

1:47.0

But he did come up with some interesting tweets the other day that we felt like would be interesting to talk about.

1:53.0

And here's the full quote from him. In case you missed it, if you don't follow him at square music, um, this is what he had to say.

1:59.0

Quote, just having breakfast and realized something 11 years ago, we were told he would be in replace because we weren't winners.

2:06.0

Let's please forget about me for a second, but just what I'm having my coffee. I found out Sebastian, where me, my former teammate in F1 keeps on adding wins and trophies to his back.

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